Mon
Aug 6 2007
06:00 pm
By: michael kaplan
For those who are always asking "Who's going to pay for it?" here's a continual accounting of the cost of the military action in Iraq.
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That's terrifying to watch, like a cut gushing blood...
The amounts we of improvements we could have bought with this money are also astounding. It's time to stop this madness now.
...and it has been reported
...and it has been reported that thirty percent of our weapons are unaccounted for! Are Bush and Cheney secretly starting another army somewhere?
Adrift in the Sea of Humility
Maybe it's the weapons they just gave the Sunnis?
You can bet they will not all be aimed at Al Queda. The fools!